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14 questions linked to/from Can we ask reviewers to *not* focus on something?
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Are questions that ask *not* to offer readability/style/structure advice, on topic? [duplicate]
The question in question: A platform-independent implementation of "which" in Ruby
The OP has rather specifically asked that people not talk about how to improve the readability of the code ...
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Should pedantry be discouraged?
I'm taking about this answer which is essentially pedantry about two variable names, which seems to be meant as a funny remark.
I mentioned (in the first comment) that such an answer contributes far ...
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Negativity specific to CR [closed]
First of all, some simple statistics.
codereview.stackexchange.com
26490 - questions asked
345 - rated negatively
1.3% (negative of the total)
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Why is hypothetical example code off-topic for Code Review?
As stated in the Help Center, one of the criteria for a question to be on topic is:
Is it actual code from a project rather than pseudo-code or hypothetical code?
Details matter! In order to give good ...
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Asking questions - including full code
In my first CR question, I was looking for feedback about my implementation of a graph data structure and an algorithm for depth first traversal, as I am studying these at the moment.
Although I ...
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Users that appear to learn nothing
I've run into a user's questions a couple of times now, and I'm finding that they seem to make the same mistakes in each question they post, like ...
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Are requests to analyze the complexity of code on-topic?
Here is an example of a question that asks for a big-O analysis of a function (to count the number of ways to make change): What is the run time of this algorithm?
Here is my algorithm
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What about questions which demands expert opinion and design feedback
This has been an issue here since a long time and I see a lot of people just to get brownie points jump in and copy paste the answers which can be as generic as possible for example:
Use linter
Bad ...
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Are SSCCEs off-topic?
I was recently reviewing a question, which (if I had paid better attention to the question from the beginning, I may have noticed before answering) had a SSCCE as its primary code example.
At first ...
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"Please refactor my code" requests
We have a consensus view that questions asking for re-writes of code are off-topic, but we still get a lot of these. Some examples:
Making this Pygame code object-oriented
Refactor Linq Expression
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Was splitting my code review into 6 parts excessive?
Got this comment:
Please take rest, you already have monopolized the Code Review.
– S. M.
2023年09月20日 18:28:46Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Not sure what the best action is.
Going forward, should I limit ...
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How to retain users?
As we were once again told that CR is heading into the right direction and we should work on retaining more of the incoming new users I wanted to start some more directed discussion on.
200_success's ...
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Reviewing Inexperience vs Reviewing Style
I just recently Posted a Review Question and got some fantastic feedback. Exactly the point of this site.
Although IMO I processed 3 separate 'types' of review points.
You Missed X, (In my case an ...
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Can I ask for a review of an entire library?
I am working on an open-source library that contains several source files. I would like to ask for feedback, not only for specific code in specific files, but also on the more general arrangement of ...